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Computer breaches at the foreign ministries of the Czech Republic, Portugal, Bulgaria, Latvia and Hungary have been traced to Chinese hackers. The attacks, which began in 2010, are continuing, according to a report to be released Tuesday by FireEye, a computer security company in Milpitas, Calif. more &raquo;

On Tuesday, the website of the Central Tibetan Administration (the organisation headed by the Dalai Lama until 2011 and often referred to as the Tibetan Government in Exile) was hacked to infect visitors' computers with spyware and viruses. Shanghaiist's James Griffiths spoke to internet security expert Michael Good by email... more &raquo;

China is responsible up to 80 per cent of US intellectual property theft, which a government report has estimated accounts for $300bn in lost exports, roughly the equivalent of the current American trade balance with Asia. "Unless current trends are reversed, there is a risk of stifling innovation, with adverse... more &raquo;

The Obama administration on Monday explicitly accused China's military of mounting attacks on American government computer systems and defense contractors, saying one motive could be to map "military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis." While some recent estimates have more than 90 percent of cyberespionage in the United... more &raquo;

Beverage giant Coca-Cola has run afoul of the Chinese government for alleged spying activities conducted in Yunnan. The company, whose products are distributed to virtually every corner of the globe, is under investigation for its use of global positioning systems (GPS) in the province. more &raquo;

The British Broadcasting Corporation may have discovered a new "red line" for the Chinese government: don't bring reporters near the Shanghai complex where China's suspected military hacking team is thought to be located. The BBC says its "World Service" broadcast is being jammed inside China, preventing people there from hearing... more &raquo;

The New York Times's announcement in January that Chinese hackers had compromised its computers, stolen employee passwords, and wormed around its network for four months made for a chilling read to those of us concerned about press safety and digital security. But the paper's latest installment, based on a report... more &raquo;

In the wake of a four-month cyber-assault by Chinese hackers on the New York Times, during which multiple high-level Times reporters' passwords were stolen using sophisticated infiltration techniques, The Onion would like to once again affirm our commitment to providing the Chinese government with our employees' passwords and personal information... more &raquo;

These are Evan Osnos' takeaways on the NYT's going public with its story of how it has been under persistent cyber attack from Chinese hackers for four months, ever since they got wind that the Times was preparing to reveal that Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's family acquired $2.7 billion in assets. more &raquo;

For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees. After surreptitiously tracking the intruders to study their movements and help erect better defenses to block them, The Times and computer security experts... more &raquo;

During his civil lawsuit against the People's Republic of China, Brian Milburn says he never once saw one of the country's lawyers. He read no court documents from China's attorneys because they filed none. The voluminous case record at the U.S. District courthouse in Santa Ana contains a single communication... more &raquo;

The website of Chinese Basketball Association was hacked in the night of Nov. 6, Beijing time (GMT 8). On the front page of the website there appeared a notice in Japanese as shown in the following. The rough translation is "Diaoyu Islands owner is Japan, Chinese are China pigs, Japanese... more &raquo;

Kids with low exam scores in Guangdong likely celebrated after seeing an opportunity to change their test scores for only RMB500. The ad was the result of a hacking attack on the province's exam website. more &raquo;

A report released on Friday (Mar 30) by Trend Micro, a computer security firm based in Tokyo, links hacking of computers belonging to companies in Japan and India and to Tibetan activists to a former graduate student at a Chinese university. The detailed investigation links Gu Kaiyuan, a former graduate... more &raquo;

A report from The Wall Street Journal this afternoon says that hackers in China breached the US Chamber of Commerce's [1] network, and had administrator access to the entire system as early as 2009. They reportedly established a number of back-doors that let them continue to have access until they... more &raquo;

The nation of China has been getting a bad rap in these last couple of weeks due to more than one allegation of the country's government hacking sensitive equipment internationally - today it appears that a single man inside the country might extend that press with an unrelated cyber attach... more &raquo;